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VoIP in the Philippines
Like a typical Filipino abroad, one of the first in my list when I moved away was to look for options on how to keep in close contact with my family and friends… minus the burned holes in my pockets. To call direct from Germany using T-Online would have been affordable. That is, if I only called once a week, a few minutes at a time. And with T-Online’s rates, we would have only lasted until “O Kamusta ka na?”
Yahoo chat was an option that I used for some time. However, more often than not, we always ended up using the chat board due to our frustrations with all the crackling sounds and disconnections.
Thank God VoiP entered the picture.
VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol has made it possible to make a free (or low-cost, depending on the options you choose) phone call using the internet. Indeed, a manna from technology heaven.
As defined by Wikipedia, “VoIP (also called IP Telephony, and Internet telephony) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP network. The voice data flows over a general-purpose packet-switched network, instead of the traditional dedicated, circuit-switched voice transmission lines.”
There are several companies offering softphones or VoIP technology, targetting millions of Filipinos abroad and their families back home.
Join me as I (along with the other authors here) review the different VoIP providers available to Pinoys all over the world.
Heck, last I heard, even PLDT wants to join the fray.
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icall.com lang
thanks !!! ganda nga ng icall.com
Please recommend a VOIP Service provider in the Philippines that would give me a cheap rate calling anywhere in the world. This will be used in a small scale call center business.
Please need it quotation. thanks
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PLEASE TELL ME HOW MUCH DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR PER MONTHLY SERVICE AND HOW IT WORK. I AM LIVING IN USA AND I HAVE FAMILY IN HAITI,PORT-AU-PRICE. I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THEM UNLIMITED INTERNATIONAL CALL THROUGH MY LANDLINE W/C CONNECTED WITH MY HIGH INTERNET MODEM.THANKS.
The cheapest of them all http://www.YeheyCall.com
$0.01 (1c) per minute.
i would suggest MagicJack XD been using it for 1 year. Im on the phone with my bf 24/7 and he’s living in U.S. (im in Philippines). You only have to pay 1 time (no monthly bill or anything) for only 2,000 pesos or $40-50, you can talk with your love ones for 1 whole year.
It’s been 5 years already and guess what? VoIP in the Phils is still quite unheard of. Why? Because we can always send text message instead and calling long distance to another region is cheap so VoIP within Philippines will not get off.
And for those Filipinos with relatives and friends in other countries like US and Europe would want a VoIP service based on those countries so they can call them for a fraction of a cost and vice versa.
I’ve been using a US based prepaid VoIP service – Onesuite.com – so a US phone number in our house helps a lot to lower down the cost as friends and relatives in the US can call us for free and we can call them for only 1 peso per minute and usually we tell them to call us back.